The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III's Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds (39 page)

Chapter 11: The Man Behind the Myth

For the story of Thomas Redeheid see Paul Murray Kendall,
Richard III
(London, 1973) p. 136. For Richard’s sense of humour: from Leicester Castle, on 18 August 1483, Richard sent an important letter to the French king, Louis XI. The letter was carried by Richard’s groom of the stable: ‘I pray that by my servant, this bearer, a groom of my stable, you will let me know in writing your full intention…’ Kendall,
Richard III,
pp. 255–6. For the letter to Chancellor Russell see Kendall,
Richard III,
p. 324. Kendall remarks on the generosity of the letter. For the full text of the poem see Andrew Breeze, ‘A Welsh Poem of 1485 on Richard III’,
Ricardian,
XVIII (2008), pp. 46–53. For analysis indicating the Tudor instigation behind it, see Annette Carson, ‘Dafydd Llwyd’s Poem’,
Ricardian Bulletin,
autumn 2008, pp. 35–49.

Chapter 12: The Man and his Times

William Bracher, yeoman of the crown, owed his promotion to royal service through informing Richard of the uprising in the West Country in 1483:
Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1476–85,
pp. 373, 390 (grants of lands and offices in Devon, Somerset and Dorset for ‘good service against the rebels’). Catesby’s role as agent of Richard III in Brittany was crucial in precipitating Henry Tudor’s flight from the duchy at the end of September 1484: Cliff Davies, ‘Richard III, Brittany and Henry Tudor’,
Nottingham Medieval Studies,
37 (1993). For the revealing wording of Richard’s grant of an annuity to Saxton Church on 19 February 1484: Tim Sutherland and Armin Schmidt, ‘Towton 1461: An Integrated Approach to Battlefield Archaeology’,
Landscapes,
4 (2003). For Thomas Gregory’s pride in his service ‘cum Henrico Septimo apud Bosworth Field’, in the earliest use of the actual battle name: the Shakespeare Centre (Birthplace Trust), DR10/1349, a deed of 26 October 1500. Henry VII’s first parliament is described in Cavill,
English Parliaments.
Material on the Stanley-Harrington dispute is drawn from Michael Jones, ‘Richard III and the Stanleys’, in
Richard III and the North,
ed. Horrox. For the political climate of the time see Paul Strohm,
Politique: The Languages of Statecraft Between Chaucer and Shakespeare
(Notre Dame, Indiana, 2005) and Grummitt,
Short History of the Wars of the Roses.
Thomas Barowe’s bequest is from Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, ‘Richard III and the University of Cambridge’, in
Richard III and East Anglia,
ed. Visser-Fuchs. On legitimacy and the Tudor claim to the throne: Michael Bennett, ‘Table Tittle-tattle and the Tudor View of History’, in
People, Places and Perspectives: Essays on Later Medieval and Early Tudor England,
ed. Keith Dockray and Peter Fleming (Stroud, 2005). For the de la Pole pedigree see Philip Morgan, ‘“Those Were the Days” – a Yorkist Pedigree Roll’, in
Estrangement, Education and Enterprise in Fifteenth-Century England,
ed. Sharon Michalove (Stroud, 1998). Cliff Davies, ‘Information, Disinformation and Political Knowledge under Henry VII and Early Henry VIII’,
Historical Research,
85 (2012) provides an important reassessment of the Tudor view of history. Jane Sacheverell’s petition is in University of Nottingham Library, GB159 Mi5/168/23.

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Index

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Act of Accord

Addison, Heidi

Agincourt, Battle of

Aitken, Janice

Albany, Duke of

Alexander the Great

Ambien Hill

André, Bernard

Anjou, Margaret of

Appleby, Dr Jo

Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment (DBA)

Archaeological Institute, University College London

Archaeology: battle

Argentine, John

armour

Arrivall, The

Arthur of Brittany

Arundel, Earl of

Ashdown-Hill, Dr John;
The Last Days of Richard III

Ashfordby, Thomas Gregory of

Astill, Paul

Atherstone

Atterton, parish of

Baker, Steve

Barnard Castle

Barnet, Battle of

Barowe, Thomas

Basin, Thomas

Bateson, Sir Thomas

Bath and Wells, Bishop of

Bawdry

Baynard’s Castle

BBC

Beaufort, Cardinal

Beaufort, Edmund, Duke of Somerset

Beaufort, Lady Margaret

Bedford, George Neville, Duke of

Beja, Duke of (
later
Manuel I)

Belgium

Berkeley, William, Lord

Berkhamsted

Bermondsey Abbey

Berwick: recapture of

Berwick Castle

Beverley, William

Bierbrier, Morris

Blisworth, Roger Wake of

Blore Heath, Battle of

Bolingbroke, Henry

Bologna

Boon, Dr Julian

Bord, Dr Raymond

Bosworth : Psychology of a Battle
(book);
see also
Jones, Michael

Bosworth, Battle of

Bourchier, Thomas

Bow Bridge

Bowers, Mick

Bracher, John

Brackenbury family

Brackenbury, Sir Robert

Brandon, Charles

Brandon, Sir William

Brecon

Brittany, Arthur of

Brittany, duchy of

Brittany, Francis, Duke of

Britten, Nick

Brooks, Colin

Buck, Sir George;
History of King Richard III

Buckingham, Anne Neville, Duchess of

Buckingham, Henry, Duke of

Buckley, Richard

Burgundy

Burgundy, Charles, Duke of

Burgundy, Margaret, Dowager Duchess of

Burntoft, John Randson of

Caerleon, Lewis

Calais

Calais Castle

Cambridge University: King’s College; Queens’ College

Camden, William

Canterbury, Archbishop of

Capwell, Dr Tobias

carbon-14 dating

Carmeliano, Pietro

Carroll, Pauline

Carson, Annette:
Richard III: The Maligned King

Cassidy, Ted

Cassiman, Jean-Jacques

Castle Rising

Catesby, William

Catholic religion

Cely, George

Centre for Human Genetics, University of Leuven

Chandée, Philibert de

Channel

Charles II: reign

Charles VII

Charles VIII

Charles the Bold

Chastel, Guillaume du

Cheney, Sir John

Chertsey Abbey

Cheshire

Chester

chivalry: warrior code of

Christ Church

Church of the Annunciation

Church of the Greyfriars
see
Greyfriars

Church

Church law

Churchill, Winston

Clair, Piara Singh

Clarence, George, Duke of

Clarence, Lionel, Duke of

Claxton, Sir Robert

Cobham, Eleanor, Duchess of

Gloucester

Colchester, Richard Fox of

Coldharbour, London house of

College of Arms, London

Colonna, Aegidius:
De Regimine Principum

Commynes, Philippe de

Cooper, Nick

Corbet, Sir Richard

Cornwall, Richard of

Coventry

Coward, Jon

Cramond Inn

Crown Hill

Croyland Chronicle

Dadlington Field

Daily Telegraph

Darlington

Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP)

Dartford

deoxyribonucleic acid
see
DNA

Derbyshire

Desk-based Assessment, Archaeological (DBA)

Desmond, Earl of

Devon

diet: results of stable isotope analysis

DNA: hapoltype J; mitochondrial; Richard III’s; Joy Ibsen’s; contamination of; Michael Ibsen’s; ancient; analysis; in determining hair and eye colour

Dokett, John

Doncaster

Dorset, Thomas, Marquis of

Drayton, Michael

Dublin Castle

Dudley, William, Bishop of Durham

Dudley, Lord

Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Design (University of Dundee)

Dunnesmore

Durham: bishopric of

Durham Cathedral

Durham, County

Dymmock, Andrew

East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit

Eboracum
see
York

Edgecote, Battle of

Edinburgh

Edward III

Edward IV: marriage to Elizabeth Woodville; death; as Earl of March; buried at Windsor; bastardy of; sons Daughters;
see also
Princes in the Tower

Edward the Confessor

Edward V

Edward, Prince of Wales

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth R
(TV series)

Ely, Bishop of

Englezo, Lambis

English Historical Review,

Environmental Research Centre, University of Glasgow

Estates, Three

Exeter

Exeter, Henry, Duke of

exhumation licence

Farnaby, Simon

Fasland, Jacob